The Gif Gaff

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[bushwacker]

Is that Ropeman?

 

[Andylaser]

No.

 

[noddy]

Nopeman

 

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[Oldtimer]

Those Ryannaire flights are getting worse.

 

[BorderReiver]

Those Ryannaire flights are getting worse.

You're on the ball today.

 

[noddy]

So, is that just her rucksack she has on?

 

[Jaggededge]

She's got bigger balls than most of us.

 

[Andylaser]

St Barts' Gustaf III Airport

 

[Saint-Just]

St Barts' Gustaf III Airport

I used to land sitting in the copilot chair. My father had created the airline that linked Guadeloupe to all the neighbouring islands up to St Barthelemy. Planes were De Havilland Twin Otters or Britain Norman 2
(This one looks like a Pegasus)
They seem to have changed the geometry of the final approach though, I remember a much more pronounced dive after the road.

 

[noddy]

Your dad ever feature in any Le Carre novels, Marc?

 

[Saint-Just]

Not to the best of my knowledge but the former director of the French secret services was at our wedding 😜🧐

 

[Andylaser]

I used to land sitting in the copilot chair. My father had created the airline that linked Guadeloupe to all the neighbouring islands up to St Barthelemy. Planes were De Havilland Twin Otters or Britain Norman 2
(This one looks like a Pegasus)
They seem to have changed the geometry of the final approach though, I remember a much more pronounced dive after the road.

Sounds like quite the ride.

 

[Saint-Just]

It was. This is a photo I found online of a Twin Otter with the original colours of the company. It evolved after my father left (in 1973).

 

[BorderReiver]

It was. This is a photo I found online of a Twin Otter with the original colours of the company. It evolved after my father left (in 1973).

If I did, and won the lottery, I would buy one of those and learn to fly.

 

[Saint-Just]

They are a fantastic STOL plane
However this trip down memory lane made me realise I was talking about something that happened 50 years ago
I remember the small villa we had in the Village St-Jean, the mini moke we had initially (second car I drove, after my mother’s 204 and first car I actually took to go to the beach and back…)
Oh how the mighty…

 

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[MaC]

Those were what we used as surf canoes I think they were really meant for canoe volley ball.

 

[noddy]

That looks like a very dangerous complete hoot. We knew them boats as bubbles. The more refined surf boats we called surf shoes. Otherwise just used a slalom boat. I had a beezer at one point; asymetric, wide at the back narrower and longer at the front. Brilliant for changing direction snappily. Useless for going forward in a straight line.